Unofficial Factions on Discovery Forums

[Govedo13]

1.What are the disadvantages associated with relaxing this restriction?
I dont see how harming unofficial factions game-play will bring any advantages.
I dont see any others, it wont bring more people to the official factions anyway witch is may be the purpose of it.

So allowing recruiting would do no harm, and possibly some good?

Yes it will do possibly some good, most of the new unofficial groups mainly consisted by new players should be able to use the forum to learn about the game and change the behaviour of their groups for good. When they are forbidden to attract other older experienced players to help them it will be just harder for them and they will make mistakes witch leads to sanctions and unpleasant in-game moments. You cannot expect that the role-play environment will be changed for good only from the official faction members since they dont even represent the half of all in-game activity. As I already stated I am all for more real faction rights- more good stuff for official factions in game.


2.What are the advantages associated with relaxing this restriction?
I still need a clarification what is considered recruiting.
According to this:

What if faction leader drops a note in unofficial faction description (status):

How to join:

Just PM me.

Is this considered a recruitment? And what about special cases, where recruitment comes in stories developing characters or becoming important part of lore for those new factions?

Recruitment refers to the process of attracting, screening, and selecting qualified people for a job. (Wikipedia)
That falls under "attracting" I suppose.

This restriction wasn't forced till now. I still cannot understand why direct recruiting by PM or indirect recruiting by unofficial faction presentation should be banned. I hardly see how the admins and the mods are going to stop the PM recruitment- they will enter in the peoples profiles and delete recruitment PMs or they will suspend the forum membership of the people who will put something like " if you are interesting in X PM me"?
I never said that the unofficials shall be able to make separate topics to recruit people, but they should be allowed to use the forum to "attract" members ,otherwise I dont see the point of allowing unofficial factions at forums at all. I dont see why making faction presentation should cost 500 mill, because for me according to wikipedia definition it is "attracting" and goes to indirect recruitment and should be forbidden according to this policy.


Ingenious - you have clearly no idea about the issue. Please try to chill a bit.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)